Around the Solar System – The Atlantic

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Around the Solar System

Robotic probes launched by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and others are gathering information all across the solar system. We currently have spacecraft in orbit around the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, a comet, and Saturn, and two operational

via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/02/around-the-solar-system/385651/

This time, we have a multiple transit of Jupiter, great close-up images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as well as tantalizing new images of the dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto, as two different probes near them​, and, of course, lovely images of our home, planet Earth